{"id":16494,"date":"2014-03-21T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/greg-mcelroy-retires\/"},"modified":"2014-03-21T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T11:47:00","slug":"greg-mcelroy-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/greg-mcelroy-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg McElroy retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former New York Jets quarterback Greg McElroy&#8217;s short NFL career has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>McElroy announced his retirement via Twitter Friday, thanking the Cincinnati Bengals and Jets for giving him a chance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to Marvin Lewis, the Brown Family, and the entire Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; organization,&#8221; McElroy wrote. &#8220;The fans make this decision especially difficult, as you have provided so much joy throughout my career. Playing in the NFL was my lifelong dream; therefore, I must also thank the New York Jets for providing me with my original opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The future is bright, and exciting things are on the horizon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Jets in the seventh round of the 2011 NFL Draft after a decorated career at Alabama, McElroy played in two games (one start) with New York in 2012. He completed 19-of-31 passes for 214 yards, one touchdown and an interception.<\/p>\n<p>He was released with an injury designation by the Jets prior to last season, then spent the 2013 campaign on Cincinnati&#8217;s practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former New York Jets quarterback Greg McElroy&#8217;s short NFL career has come to an end. McElroy announced his retirement via Twitter Friday, thanking the Cincinnati Bengals and Jets for giving him a chance. &#8220;Thank you to Marvin Lewis, the Brown Family, and the entire Cincinnati Bengals&#8217; organization,&#8221; McElroy wrote. &#8220;The fans make this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119,118,117,129,59,128],"class_list":["post-16494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-jets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}